>>Can anyone make suggestions for reducing the size of an application's EXE? My VFP 5.0 app just crossed 6MB and someone once told me that big EXE's could be problemmatic. What kinds of things can I do to bring the size of that EXE down? Can I somehow externalize code or forms and make some kind of DLL? Can VFP make DLL's? Am I worrying about nothing?
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>>Any advice appreciated.
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>Ernie,
>
>you have a lot o options.
>
>Yes you can create one ore more DLL,
>but you have to design your application
>accordingly.
>
>What did you include in the project for
>compilation ? Only the needed files, or all
>of them ?
>
>One of your options is to not include the
>forms in the *.app (*.scx - based).
>
>Have a look at your *.scx and *.vcx. They
>are only normal tables, and maybe a lot of
>deleted records ... get rid of them.

Also, If you don't need Debug in the released exe, turn it off before you build the project into an exe.

HTH
Jeff